It includes the time it takes for the current to build up to its steady-state value, the
plasma heating time, the resistive skin time, and the particle and energy
confinement times. The resistive time scale is very slow compared with all three
wave ...

This monograph describes plasma physics for magnetic confinement of high temperature plasmas in nonaxisymmetric toroidal magnetic fields or stellarators. The techniques are aimed at controlling nuclear fusion for continuous energy production. While the focus is on the nonaxisymmetric toroidal field, or heliotron, developed at Kyoto University, the ...

Introduction Inductive heating of plasma is usually conducted at small
frequencies such that the inverse of the plasma resistive skin time, t , is smaller
than the driving field frequency (ux « 1). The increase of frequency should result
in better ...

This invaluable book provides a basic introduction to plasma equilibrium, particle orbits, transport, and those ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic instabilities which dominate the behavior of toroidal magnetically confined plasmas, and to develop the mathematical methods necessary for their theoretical analysis. The book deals primarily with t...

At first the EOH increases the edge Tc rapidly since the skin current penetrates
on the time- scale of the resistive skin time (rr * 5 ms). Then T, is increased by the
ion-electron collisions on a much shorter time-scale (tk = 0.4 ms) so that the ion ...

At first the EOH increases the edge Tc rapidly since the skin current penetrates
on the time- scale of the resistive skin time (rr * 5 ms). Then T, is increased by the
ion-electron collisions on a much shorter time-scale (jK * 0.4 ms) so that the ion ...

That broad sawtooth oscillations can hinder reactor performance has been
suggested previously.9,24 The long resistive skin time in CIT compared with the
length of the discharge means that the sawtooth mixing radius during the burn
phase ...